Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: URBAN CULTURE IN THE MUSLIM MEDITERRANEAN

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar examines processes of change in the dynamics of urban life in cities of the former Ottoman empire including Instanbul, Cairo, Salonica, Damascus and Aleppo between the 18th and 19th centuries. Weekly discussions will be based on readings of primary and secondary sources that explore issues of public behavior, sociability, delinquency, poverty, prostitution, immigration, marginality, and forms and discourses of governance and social control such as morality, public security and social order. Additional course work required for graduate students. Cross-list: HART 527, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 477.